those holes. in the read in country club so boring sure to find this piece of the first book i'll sure can pinsky switzer till closing the hole. let's come. teco to. the un has imposed sanctions on libya as the violence continues in that country in a week that see more protests across the arab world. also in the news this week with thousands of north africans fleeing from political upheaval italy has declared a humanitarian crisis as refugees flock to its shores. the founder of the wiki leaks web site is to appeal a london court decision to at you drive him to sweden he says he won't get a fair trial in a process he believes is intended to ultimately get him to america to face prosecution over a vast police of u.s. diplomatic files. and america says goodbye to discovery as the spacecraft performs

its last ever mission before nasa retires its three remaining shuttles later this year american astronauts will now have to rely on the russian rockets to take them into orbit before the next generation of spacecraft is ready. and direct from our studios in central moscow to you this is our team the u.n. security council has unanimously agreed it sanctions against the libyan leader moammar gadhafi and his loyalists and has ordered an investigation into possible crimes against humanity after attacks on protesters opposed to the regime over a thousand have died in nearly two weeks of on rats it off the groups have been confronting rebels now in control of large areas of the country including the city of zawiya. fifty kilometers west of the capital tripoli where opposition forces

have tanks and anti-aircraft missiles the opposition wanting to end it off he's a forty one year war have appointed former justice minister mustafa abdel jahleel to head a provisional government he has expressed frustration at the lack of support from other nations as gadhafi forces attempt to suppress the part of an uprising with brutal violence more than one hundred thousand people have fled to neighboring countries in the turmoil along with many foreign nationals archy's correspondent peter oliver is following developments from next door and. the un security council voted unanimously to impose these sanctions on the gadhafi regime now they'll take the form of a travel ban against colonel gadhafi himself as well as others close to him an acid free zone could be on his in a circle a sixty names on this list is also an arms embargo will be placed upon libya now the resolution it was brought forward by france the u.k.

germany and the united states also come tains a referral to the hague to the international criminal court there so that they can look into allegations of crimes against humanity committed during the two weeks of violence that we've seen in libya governments around the world have been doing the best to get their citizens out of the country but it's also being libyans trying to get out of the country as well one hundred thousand are believed to have fled across the border either into tunisia or here to egypt where i am now many of the nations around the world think also suspending diplomatic ties with tripoli we heard today on sunday that france suspend their diplomatic ties with tripoli the russian embassy in the capital of libya will be taking care of french citizens until the french government can work out a way to get them out of the country or prime minister but i did hear putin has said this the sick country in libya should be allowed to determine. it's own future

once this bloody violence has died down it was because of today we saw you were concerned about things happening in libya please note the following the north african cell of al qaeda is also concerned about what is happening in libya do you think this is a coincidence because i'd like to go back in history a little bit quickly the former leader of the iranian revolution with where he lived but he lived in paris and there's a whole he was supported by the western community you would get religion out of the entire western community fights against the iranian nuclear program i remember just recently our partners were very active in support of the democratic elections in the palestinian autonomy and how much one would wish and immediately they declared hamas a terrorist organization and started fighting against it we need to give people the chosen to see them in the future themselves we need to give them an opportunity to take the natural way without any foreign interference to build their future protesters take control of more and more of the country they're coming across the palaces of the get out of the regime now one such palace just outside of outside of

benghazi has become the command center of the center of operations for the movement against the libyan government against colonel gadhafi and they've been cut discovering some interesting things that in going through these palaces and that one of them being guarded in a scale that a bunker there is designed to withstand a that an attack from a non conventional weapon showing me the security consciousness the security paranoia if you will that was in place in mind now we are hearing that tripoli remains in control of loyalists to colonel gadhafi they've been handing out weapons troops to be handing out weapons to civilians on the streets of tripoli and obviously in district about six kilometers outside of the center of the capital civilians were manning checkpoints looking at cars searching cars there and checking identification papers now many of the citizens of. police have remained

inside their homes locked in door scared of these these armed militia that are patrolling the streets there with the latest reports that we do have suggests they're just fifty kilometers outside of tripoli the city of this fall in to the opposition forces now this violence in libya has been the bloodiest across the region we've seen a revolution here in egypt where i am and also violence in other arab states and north african states now the. violence here though fast the passing anything that we've seen elsewhere at least one thousand people believed to have been killed so far political journalist anthony while says that western style democracy is a tool of abuse rather than freedom and it shouldn't be applied to the arab world. western style democracy in its current state is far from what i would consider to be something that we should want in any of these countries i think i think if there's going to be democracy it should be a democracy with a real change and

a change that reflects democracy that actually benefits the people today's democracy is nothing more than a mainstream control mechanism through which the vast majority of the public who do not think are emotionally engaged in in situations that they don't even really realize what it is that they're voting for or approving and if you think that democracy which is supposedly what the u.s. is out there pushing and driving home for these people who need so much the philosophy of what they've developed and put together in the in the u.s. for example take a look at look at what they're doing any building bases in hundreds of over one hundred different countries you know basically putting at the end of a gun the word democracy and shoving it down their throats to me this is not democracy this is abuse this is nothing more than a system that is doomed to failure and as long as central banks continue to stand side by side in a democratic system like we have printing endless amounts of money which is devalued by devaluing by the minute we're not going to have anything more here than chaos that is used to mask that devaluation process and hopefully distract people

from the overall fraud that some perpetrated on western societies if that's democracy who would want it. and as the unrest to grips the middle east fears spread that oil prices could keep rising even further reports that colonel gadhafi could sabotage his country's oil pipelines have fanned the flames of concern this week with prices hitting their highest level in two years there are major concerns of global economic consequences if unrest hits other top oil producers in the region some analysts claim prices could rocket as far as two hundred twenty u.s. dollars per barrel analyst munna share tackling that warns that merely the fear of more unrest spreading could drive or the prices are. people in the financial markets have a fear they look nothing to prison time and there is still separation oil in the. basin that say but they fear that this might expand there will be destruction etc etc and they think it is not

a few months ahead and they fear for that is what has caused the price go up i think the basic behind it is defeated that there will be a destruction of the supply of oil and so people who are in that market a bit and take positions for higher prices in order to cover themselves there for a wide ranging spend if it is only confined to destruction from libya they're all industry the world market can manage it with a he can't be the difficulty of. disruption for a few weeks or maybe a month or two and in europe italy fears being swept under by a wave of illegal immigrants fleeing instability in the middle east the italian government has declared a humanitarian emergency as thousands of refugees from its former colony libya and other parts of north africa have landed on the island of lampedusa from this is where our keys peace can offer ports. eighty miles off the coast of north africa the tiny italian island of lampedusa has relied on fishing and tourism

for its main sources of income but for the first time in years the bolts on hold and then there are dry but that's because you can't work there always are here we haven't gone out to sea for twenty days now since the recent uprising in tunisia the island has been flooded with with three g.'s over five and a half thousand arrived in just two weeks sometimes up to three hundred refugees but crammed on just one tiny fishing boat to make the perilous journey to the mediterranean island doesn't have all many of those who needed have nothing to lose . year on its head with no money and no jobs they have already been cases of vandalism that. nothing started leaving the lights on at night they always wonder around and none of the local civil used to lock their doors and now that these people are here we feel uncomfortable due to its location like it was is familiar

with refugees but never so many in such a short period of time and with many voicing strong beliefs official say identifying genuine cases is one of the biggest problems. that we are historically a free nation and we want freedom of islam we want to live like our prophet told us in holy books to live in an islamic state. most storehouse at this refugee center where they are provided with food water clothes and medical aid all financed from the state budget is designed to house only around eight hundred people so under tight security hundreds of refugees are flown to the mainland in the beginning we sent four planes yesterday but on average two planes with refugees leave every day to crew tony mari and polygamy. italy and tunisia used to have an agreement under which malls with fiji's were intercepted before even

reaching the island but now that the government has been overthrown the floodgates have opened i could buy islands continuing to spread in both north africa and the middle east italy's already warned other evil states up to three hundred thousand refugees could we leave alone for decades lump you know that manage to i mean i've plenty isolated world of it's all the little with all these lives and no one was afraid to leave their doors all the time suffering and the biggest wave of refugees may still be out there anything on this tiny island but the entire continent you want to follow for you what to do about it away. from the danish institute for international studies says political change in the middle east affects europe much more than just illegal immigration. even before

all these are prized things the prospect of massive immigration has always been europe's wars tonight and in real terms it has never been substantial we have always been below thirty thousand. possible entries every year. clearly the overthrow of the governments poses a whole different set of issues and what europe will be able to do it depends on the ability of actually cordy meeting among some of the governments that are most affected i mean imagine if into a month's time coralie gadhafi is not overthrown i mean the business cannot proceed as usual after this so something will have to be done. coming up in a few minutes and there doesn't have to be just one. or two thousand and fourteen sochi winter olympics will have three mascots chosen by russians and a country wide for stay with us to meet the characters of clubs also. so

we pony up the cash but have to ride on the help of the backseat take the wheel. this americans are baffled by obama's new space program which they feel and the reins to russians in the race to the plants. the founder of the wiki leaks website julian assange is to appeal a london court decision to extradite him to sweden on sex charges which were earlier dropped saying he won't get a fair trial he also believes the court proceedings in stockholm will bring him closer to prosecution in america in connection with a vast leak of top secret u.s. diplomatic files artie's kalen ford looks at the case and why many think it has more to do with politics than justice. when julian assange emerged less than a year ago with this video. showing u.s.

troops going down an armed civilians into reuters journalist video games he was lauded as a hero of transparency. and anti war ally a human rights defender r.t. america interviewed his sons on the day of collateral murders release and what keeps people and more people of civilization as we understand how the world actually works. in the form of spirit used to get information out about the real world. a comment on the different. sources could get. through to the public eye no matter computer expert with the cache of two hundred fifty thousand classified cables assigned catapulted to the front page of virtually every newspaper in the country working with wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks to his foes julian assange is

a cyber terrorist and war time he's guilty of sabotage espionage crimes against humanity he should be killed but to his fans a soft spoken ad to those with a potential to radically reshape the geo political landscape voted by the people as time's man of the year our commitment to our sources is not just to protect. it's not just to publish the material used to get the maximum political impact possible but it's our city it's the political impact of the leaker and not the leaks that has gripped heavily. allegations of sexual misconduct by two swedish women infighting within wiki leaks frozen bank accounts starved donations and particularly obama administration in the cia they want to start wiki leaks they're doing. all sorts of extraordinary actions stop being paid or lean on pay pal master card and other private corporations to allow donations that we made

a wiki leaks that once heroic figure now hocking mugs bumper stickers and t. shirts to pay his legal bills who profits from demeaning meaning truly and us you know obviously it's the us government which is really hard to get get him makes no bones about it then under the passed by the newspaper that once eagerly used his leaks to show impressions of. some firm in a way say assigned and wiki leaks have been effectively neutralized consumed by litigation rather then leaks i think would be american government wants as they have mr science in custody so that ultimately he can be extradited to the united states to face charges for the release of those documents u.k. court ruled that julian assange should be extradited to sweden but his attorneys say the next stop for the thirty nine year old computer programmer could be here in the united states. espionage charges and even the death penalty as a sound basis jail time the future of wiki leaks hangs in the balance and its

ability to be a place for whistleblowers and it became of transparency and ford r.t. washington d.c. the london court's decision to extradite julian assange to sweden has sparked criticism of the british judicial and european arrest warrant systems with the country granting asylum to many high profile fugitives wanted on even more serious charges some claim the case exposes hypocrisy on the part of the u.k. authorities. the basic tradition relating to asylum is that anybody can come here provided they are loaded provided they've got lots of money we will let the mean because we want them in with their money and therefore it's not particularly their russian magnets and all the gox are welcome here our shakes. may have a jew be a criminal record i think were of torture yet they were allowed to fly around london and knightsbridge bayswater wherever and no problem whatsoever this week

america's longest serving the space shuttle discovery has docked with the international space station on its last ever mission after almost thirty years in service the spacecraft to be retired and put out to pasture museum on saturday the six member crew delivered supplies and the first humanoid robot to fly in space all together and there are now twelve people on board the space craft representing the u.s. russia and italy discovery's sister ships and devore and atlantis are scheduled for their final voyages within the next six months marking the end of many u.s. spacecraft until the next generation fleet is ready in around ten years time but artie's can found out that not everyone is happy in america with the new space program. by the end of this year nasa will no longer be able to send humans into space according to obama's plane responsibility will go to private companies which are expected to come up with cheaper ways to ferry astronauts to low earth orbit

they know that they have a big step to take when they if they're thinking about putting humans into space and that's going to take a you know the next phase of their development so i have a very. good i can even estimate exactly no one can say for sure when the private american companies will come up with a new spaceship for years to come it will be the russians so use that's going to be the only means for people to reach the international space station which is perfectly fine with the leaders of russia and the u.s. but doesn't sit well with many americans how could this how. we could make it to the moon earth to build this wonderful equipment and then. and now we're we're reduced to being passengers on a russian ship and that's that's sort of it it's going to cry one day clyde revealed itself in comments by some american lawmakers astronaut scientists and

former nasa official comedians in the u.s. did not miss out on poking fun at american sense of pride so we pony up the cash then after right on the hope of the backseat of the rescues take the wheel. yes you know you got to let us touch the radio there want to eat snacks or stop to use the bathroom should have gone before we left. you used to but those the nasa who now actually work with the russians like astronaut sunny williams have different sentiments i couldn't imagine when i was growing up walking through red square or going to a russian company and working hand in hand with my russian colleagues or going to their families homes and having dinner with them and likewise when they come to the u.s. and so. i think. maybe we are competing but we're working together i think it's more of a time during cooperation and learning from one another that's just as healthy as the competition we have in the past it's not the first time americans have to rely on

the russians to take their crew to space they depended on washing rockets during a two year grounding of u.s. spacecraft after the two thousand and three space shuttle columbia disaster columbia exploded during re-entry into the earth's atmosphere all seven crew members died shuttles track record includes another tragedy in one thousand nine hundred eighty six the space shuttle challenger broke apart seventy three seconds into its flight yacht the russians so use proved to be the safest way to deliver people can space and now with the shuttle retiring it will be the only way we're no longer racing against an adversary we're no longer competing to achieve a singular goal like reaching them all. in fact what was once a global competition is long since become a global collaboration the leaders of both russia and the us are saying space is no longer a place for competition it's now a ground for cooperation with the remains in the world here in the us except it.

let's take a look at some other headlines from the around the world. a massive landslide in the bolivian capital has swept away at least one hundred fifty homes that have been no reported deaths but there's been a widespread structural damage across an entire neighborhood in the mountain city president evil layered a state of emergency to cope with the flooding and landslides damage that hit much of the country and killed forty four in recent weeks. several people including the bystanders have been arrested in china as so-called jasmine rallies took place across the country for the second sunday in a row and demonstrations were organized anonymously online to call for a more accountable government organizers had urged peaceful action and encouraged people to stroll watch or pretend to pass by one rally was however dispersed by

squads of policemen with dogs and members of the people's armed police a division of the army international reporters that were warned not to conduct interviews without prior permission but several who flocked to a protest site in beijing this morning with police arrested. the death toll from the earthquake in new zealand has reached one hundred forty seven with more than two hundred people still missing memorial services around the country have been remembering the dead rescuers in christ church are working to clear wreckage from the city as officials warn that many buildings may have to be demolished the earthquake is not to be the new zealand's it worst ever natural disaster. tunisian prime minister mohammad has it was. seeking it to stop a violent new protests in the country his retirement was a key demand of the demonstrate as she was seen as too close to x. president ben ali was asked last month at least five people were killed in the

latest clashes between hundreds of protesters and security forces in tunis on saturday another former government minister has been named as the new premier. they say teamwork is the lynchpin of success and the russian public seems to agree having chosen not one but three mascots for sochi is two thousand and fourteen winter olympics competition was fierce but a snow leopard a polar bear and a bunny on skates took the gold in the televised vote on saturday dennis blonsky reports on the latest additions to the winter games lineup. these are the first winners of the four chilean pics from now on a snow leopard a polar bear and a hare have won through to become the official mascot of the two thousand and fourteen winter games a ray of light and no one will represent the paralympics he is through on the prize winning places in any sport so burned first second and third and the main model would be lympics is not it's not victory because it's

a patient medicine boards and the leopard and the bear each have their strong points that's why i think creating a teen was a smart choice the winners were selected by members of the public prim across russia in a phone booth televised on saturday become petition to devise them was also a public outward creations are the result of a nationwide competition launched last year with ideas to do a special website and brochures artists amateurs and professionals like rush to the challenge the election of the olympic mascot started with hundreds of ideas and you can see some of these drawings here in sochi olympic information center eventually it came down to this style ten rate here these are the methods that made it into the finals and won the entries are two bears slowly acquired for the frost and then we have some cheese personal favorite of the open on skis despite their cobley appearance the competition between damascus was almost as intense as for olympic

gold traditional russian characters like father crossed melted in the heat of battle and didn't make the point of cart not even and make over with the latest winter sports where passion was enough to sweep a rather hip set of russians much rush goodall's to victory will be a limp except only one winner become petition organizers for the mascot circled on three no doubt with the nyclu commercial possibilities to see who's doing the breath you can journey is ahead for all the symbols chosen for the games they're just making their first steps on the. asin the peak of their popularity in two thousand and fourteen and of course we're counting on commercial success with three years left until the olympics so she will now have to get used to three new theory on the really citizens at least one of them is no stranger to the southern russian city as for real snow leopards have recently found a new home at the local wildlife preserve the three winning best kids have

a hard act to fall in matching the worldwide fame won by me shop their counterparts for the 1980's small school lympics but sochi will be hoping they'll become just as loft and will love this bosky are so cheap and i'll be back with a recap of this week's top stories in just a few moments. come

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